Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks

Philip S Baringer; Alice Bean; Gabriele Benelli; R. P. Kenny; Michael J Murray; Danny Noonan; Stephen J Sanders; Robert W Stringer; Jeffrey Scott Wood; S Chatrchyan; V Khachatryan; A. M Sirunyan; A Tumasyan; W Adam; T Bergauer; M Dragicevic; J Erö; C Fabjan; Yasar Onel; CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003

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Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks

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Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks

Philip S Baringer, Alice Bean, Gabriele Benelli, R. P. Kenny, Michael J Murray, Danny Noonan, Stephen J Sanders, Robert W Stringer, Jeffrey Scott Wood, S Chatrchyan, …

Physical review. D. Particles and fields, Vol.89(1), 012003

01/21/2014

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003

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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003. A search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to bb-bar when produced in association with a weak vector boson (V) is reported for the following channels: W(μν)H, W(eν)H, W(τν)H, Z(μμ)H, Z(ee)H, and Z(νν)H. The search is performed in data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at s√=7 TeV and up to 18.9 fb(−1) at s√=8 TeV, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. An excess of events is observed above the expected background with a local significance of 2.1 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, consistent with the expectation from the production of the standard model Higgs boson. The signal strength corresponding to this excess, relative to that of the standard model Higgs boson, is 1.0±0.5.

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Title: Subtitle: Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks
Creators: Philip S Baringer
Alice Bean
Gabriele Benelli
R. P. Kenny
Michael J Murray
Danny Noonan
Stephen J Sanders
Robert W Stringer
Jeffrey Scott Wood
S Chatrchyan
V Khachatryan
A. M Sirunyan
A Tumasyan
W Adam - Austrian Academy of Sciences
T Bergauer - Austrian Academy of Sciences
M Dragicevic - Austrian Academy of Sciences
J Erö - Austrian Academy of Sciences
C Fabjan - Austrian Academy of Sciences
Yasar Onel (Contributor) - Physics and Astronomy
CMS Collaboration
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Physical review. D. Particles and fields, Vol.89(1), 012003
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003
ISSN: 0556-2821
eISSN: 1089-4918
Publisher: American Physical Society
Language: English
Date published: 01/21/2014
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984429019502771

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